We compared Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Comparison Results: When comparing Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS, Azure is praised for its manageable setup, support, and documentation. It offers a wide range of features, an intuitive interface, and strong integration with other Microsoft solutions. However, it may be challenging for beginners and lacks user-friendliness in certain aspects. On the other hand, AWS provides quick deployment, extensive features, and strong integration capabilities. Users appreciate its scalability, reliability, and cost-effectiveness. However, some users find AWS pricing to be high and suggest improvements in areas like user interface, security, and billing.
"It is enough for us in terms of features. We don't have too many transactions, and it is sufficient for our current needs."
"Provisioning and resource administration include billing dashboards, which are very extensive."
"Our primary use case is to use the solution for running many relatively small instances for back office applications and various other business important applications."
"We deploy our core application and our integration platform on AWS EC2 instances. These applications contain multiple containerized Python Django applications, which need to scale up and down dynamically."
"It is flexible. It is quite comfortable to use for organizations."
"We have seen an improvement in our infrastructure, as the code makes it very easy to deploy quickly to AWS."
"The installation and initial setup are easy."
"The most valuable features of Amazon AWS are the high level of capabilities, cloud-native environment, developer-friendly, intuitive interface, and automation. The solution overall is easy to learn from the resources available."
"The product has been very stable for us so far."
"Compute (App service, and virtual machine scale sets): The ability to manage Windows and Linus virtual machines."
"I like the functionalities and the price. I'm very satisfied with Microsoft Azure."
"I have not had a problem with the stability. It is reliable."
"The technical support has been excellent."
"The solution is stable."
"The user interface is very nice and makes everything easy to use."
"Much more intuitive and more visual than AWS. More obvious where things are and how to change their configurations, etc."
"One thing that Azure offers that I think is good is Migrate appliance. So, Azure has a migrate appliance that allows you to run against workloads to determine the cost, preparedness, and scalability. I haven't found a similar feature in AWS. That kind of service would be great on AWS too if you could point it to the data center."
"The dashboard can be improved a little bit to provide more information."
"Scaling is an area that can be improved."
"It's a good cloud, however, if I compare it with Azure, Azure is more of a feature-rich cloud."
"The cost of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"It just needs to be improved from the security perspective."
"Amazon AWS could improve by being more secure and adding more features."
"The technical support package for free trial users should be built on and improved."
"In the next release, I would like to see better security."
"I would like to see the console improved."
"Microsoft Azure can be pretty advanced and difficult to understand. I would like it to be simplified. The licensing especially needs to be simplified."
"The cost of the product is too high. It would be ideal if they could lower it a bit for their customers."
"They're already doing quite a bit. I'm not unsatisfied with anything that they're doing right now. They can maybe make the transitions a little smoother and improve its pricing. The pricing for the end-user packages is a bit high."
"Scalability is definitely in need of improvement. Azure is a very good solution but it still lacks the performance of other cloud platforms."
"The solution could improve by having more security features around my data and the platform."
"Pricing is one area where Azure has room for improvement. There should be some due consideration. Azure has solved some issues with pricing from the development team's standpoint, but it is still quite costly. They should also offer a trial period for the individual platform solutions. I think that would be pretty handy for the developers."
Amazon AWS is ranked 2nd in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 250 reviews while Microsoft Azure is ranked 1st in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 299 reviews. Amazon AWS is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Azure is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Amazon AWS writes "Reliable with good security but is difficult to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure writes "Promotes clear, logical structures preventing impractical configurations and offers seamless integration ". Amazon AWS is most compared with Linode, OpenShift, SAP Cloud Platform, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Pivotal Cloud Foundry, whereas Microsoft Azure is most compared with Google Firebase, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Pivotal Cloud Foundry, SAP Cloud Platform and Alibaba Cloud. See our Amazon AWS vs. Microsoft Azure report.
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